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7.2.6 Pro-drop<br />

<strong>Arabic</strong><br />

Table 7.13: Test: Pro-drop<br />

fāttny ālt.ā֓yrh<br />

human-translated I missed the plane.<br />

Google Missed the plane<br />

Microsoft <br />

fāttny plane<br />

UniArab I missed the plane.<br />

7.2. SENTENCE TESTS<br />

Table 7.13 shows an example of a pro–drop sentence. The output of the Google trans-<br />

la<strong>to</strong>r is faulty in the point of pro-drop; the system did not find the subject. Microsoft’s<br />

MT did not recognize the important word in the sentence and passed it through <strong>to</strong> the<br />

output. UniArab successfully translates the sentence in its entirety. Figure 7.14 shows<br />

this sentence output in the UniArab system.<br />

Figure 7.14: Pro-drop<br />

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